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UK: British Identity Cards: Arguments For and Against their Retention and Use 1945-1952 by Dominic Small

01 September 2010

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UK: British Identity Cards: Arguments For and Against their Retention and Use 1945-1952 (pdf) by Dominic Small:

"To allow the state and the police access to an identity card is to fundamentally change the relationship the citizen has with the state. It makes the citizen subservient to the arbitrary control of the state and grants the state total access to personal data on the individual."

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